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Radio and Music update: personalisation & mobile21 February 2012, 1:48 pm
The new Radio homepage, compared to the previous version (behind) This week we have released several new elements of the Radio and Music product, which I will explain in this post. Since my last post in December we have been busy releasing features and fixes every three weeks, listening to audience feedback sent in via our feedback form and also through formal user testing.It’s worth re-stating - before I go into detail on the new features - that what we are doing here is leading to ...
Alix Pryde blogs on satellite TV at the About the BBC blog20 February 2012, 5:08 pm
Until now, Alix Pryde blogged about BBC services on satellite here on the BBC Internet blog. Starting with her blog post today about some BBC channels moving to a newer satellite, her posts move onto the About the BBC blog: The BBC currently broadcasts many of its television and radio services on Astra 2D, so as part of this replacement process BBC services that are currently located on Astra 2D will be moved across to Astra 1N. Ian McDonald is the Content Producer of the BBC Inte...
What's On BBC Red Button 18th - 25th February18 February 2012, 6:00 am
White Van Man White Van Man Didn't catch the fantastic first series of White Van Man? Shame on you. But not to worry - you can catch the very best bits on the Red Button. Plus you'll have all the info you need to really enjoy Series Two! Will Mellor plays good guy Ollie, the proverbial man with a van, written by stand-up comedian Adrian Poynton. In Series 1, Ollie reluctantly put his dreams of running a restaurant on the back burner when his ailing father, Tony, turned to him to take over t...
BBC Sport: Live Beyond Live14 February 2012, 2:00 pm
a selection of design work in progress I'm Scott Byrne-Fraser, Creative Director of the user experience and design team who work alongside the editorial and product teams on BBC Sport's digital products. This month we launched the redesigned sport desktop site, the first step in our digital journey in what is a massive year of sport in 2012. It's a large scale modernisation of the site and the first full redesign in almost ten years. My colleagues Cait O'Riordan and Ben Gallop have alread...
BBC Sport: Strategy, User Testing, and Implementation14 February 2012, 12:34 pm
BBC Sport homepage My name is Neil Hall and I work with Cait O'Riordan at BBC Future Media. Based in Salford, I am the product manager specifically responsible for the BBC Sport website. Working with our editorial colleagues at BBC Sport, I led the project team who delivered this relaunch. Cait O'Riordan and Ben Gallop have already given you some insight into the relaunch. In this blog post I am going to explain the strategy behind the changes we have made and how we went about implementing th...
What's On BBC Red Button 11th - 19th February11 February 2012, 6:00 am
Dickens in London Tune into BBC Red Button for the Omnibus edition of five short plays that mark the bi-centenary of Charles Dickens' birth. The theme of the plays is Dickens' changing relationship with London - the city that fired his imagination. Writer Michael Eaton has based each play on Dickens' own letters and journalism: Sketches By Boz and the articles from the journals Household Words and All The Year Round. But these short dramas are never afraid to play fast and loose with a...
BBC Blue Room at the Consumer Electronics Show 20129 February 2012, 4:30 pm
CES: the calm before the crowds 2012: my first time at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. I hop off the plane with ambition to reach as many of the 3100 gadget filled booths as possible, hard to do in a few days as there are over 20,000 new products alone. The place is epic, five ginormous halls spread over miles - ouch my feet hurt. I'm information gathering for the @BBCBlueRoom - our consumer media technology lab - our 'micro CES'. We look at year-on-year trends to determine the imp...
BBC Sport: Olympic page launch8 February 2012, 10:56 am
Every event now has a destination page. Hi – just to remind you that I’m responsible within BBC Future Media for the development of the BBC Sport Website, including our Olympic coverage. Following the roll-out of the new BBC Sport website (bbc.co.uk/sport) last week, today we are launching some new pages in the Olympics section. In this blog, I will tell you a little bit about the new pages we are rolling out as well as talk about how your feedback is helping us plan further change...
What's On BBC Red Button 4th - 12th February4 February 2012, 6:00 am
Radio 2 Folk Awards Mike Harding The Radio 2 Folk Awards will be broadcast live on Wednesday 8 Feb from 7.30pm on BBC Radio 2, online at BBC Radio 2, and on the BBC's Red Button Service. The Radio 2 Folk Awards ceremony is a much anticipated annual event in the music world with previous years featuring incredible performances from folk luminaries like James Taylor, Nanci Griffith, and Donovan who was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award at last year's event. This year, the ceremony ...
Supporting Accessibility: Betsie, Text Only, and the Semantic Web3 February 2012, 12:00 pm
On the Autumn open post, Russ asked: When did the BBC drop the 'Text only' option for the homepage? Whether or not to provide a Text Only version of a webpage is an interesting Accessibility question. I established the Accessibility Team for public facing BBC digital services back in 2005, and we have been discussing that question since then. At the time the BBC had two Text Only solutions which enabled users of early screen reader technologies and mobile browsers better access to BBC con...

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